I'm using an AoAoA currently for a data structure. An example of its use would be like this: $notes[$x][$y][0] = ... As you can see, the first two dimensions refer to the location of an object and the third refers to properties of that object such as flags and other data. My problem is that although the indices always refer to the same data member, it's not very readable or maintainable if you forget the index number for the data you want.

A couple solutions I've thought of are below:

• Use an AoAoH instead, and refer to each data member by name
• Use constant declarations to name each index
• Use upper-case variables to show their status as constant names for indices
• Use a package with setter and getter functions or public data members and use an AoA with the package objects as the contents
• Get other ideas from PM

What do you think? I don't want to use any external CPAN distributions and I'd like the solution to not require too much boilerplate. Thanks for your time.

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